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Old 11-23-2009 | 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Grumble
Go to med school, someday you'll make 300K/year, and you can buy whatever you want to fly whenever you want.
The Doctor business is hurting just as bad as the Piloting business right now. The take-home pay for those $300K doctors is approaching Airline pilot pay, and will look even worse if they all end up working for the government-run medical system someday as a GS-13. The cost-benefit on Med School is getting as bad as getting your ratings with double the time investment, student loans till you're 48 years old, and the familiar $30,000 entry-level wages.

But if you want to be a Doctor or Pilot, Military is the way to go. We even have some who are both (Flight Surgeon and rated pilot)...student loan debt = 0, starting pay $60K-100K.

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